After a few technical hitches, I'm happy to say that the boys did well - the fab Vox Pops we had for our celebrity culture Sunday are back online. Click here for the original post. Click here to subscribe to…
Bit of a bumper edition this August - to help you while away the long idle hours of the summer... Sacred Treasure A FASCINATING article in the latest Themelios by Don Carson on the ins and outs of polemical theology.…
Hours could be misspent enjoyably in this great website: Craig Damrauer's All New Math (as it's American, this site has only one math). Basically full of occasionally thought-provoking, often inane, sometimes suggestive, and every now and then, quite perspicacious equations…
Well, having had a well-plugged launch a few weeks back, the Camp Quest atheist camp has started. They're having a ball, it seems. Well of course they are - kids' activity holidays have to work hard not to be. Camping…
Have been captivated by John North's extraordinary book on Hans Holbein's painting The Ambassadors. If you've never seen the painting in the flesh, it's in the National Gallery in London - well worth a peek, not least because it's free.…
As promised a few posts ago, here are the 2 other videos brilliantly produced by Simon Green for our Celebrity Culture sunday. Both are vox pops. 1st asks the simple question, WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE CELEBRITY? 2nd asks IS JESUS…
I post this satirical blast for a number of reasons. it makes me cringe - because it could so easily have been made by a Christian in earnest... (in fact, there were awful moments when I really thought that it…
This poem by Steve Stockman (all-round pop-culture surmiser) has rattled around my mind since I read it a few months ago. And it particularly seems to resonate with the Habakkuk series we’ve just been working through. So I reproduce it…
One of the admin team actually had a spare red carpet uphis sleeve (thanks, Dave) - and so this was put to good use and then wheeled out this Sunday for the latest in our Christians facing Issues series. Here…
Let's face it, most of the time rants aren't that constructive. Most of the time. But when they are well-intentioned, well-conceived and passionately concerned about things that matter... well perhaps they havetheir place. And then when they come from the…
As it's Jean Cauvin's 500th birthday, here are a few links on the old chap: An official site for the Calvin 500 celebrations. The tribute in The Times (of all places) to Calvin, 'this most maligned of theologians'. Justin Thacker in the…
become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe (Philippians 2:15) Was chatting a few weeks back with my mate Tim Plyming when he was…